Skived off blogging yesterday so missed the opportunity to say pinch, punch, first day of the month, *no return* – as we used to do in the playground. (I’m coming over all Iona Opie…)
Tried to cram a quart into a pint pot’s worth of time today. Felt a lot like packing for one of my holidays, kitchen-sink style.
Trying to regain the plot on information literacy. What kind of reports do we need to write this year, bearing in mind new currents that are afoot in the uni and the feedback from our IL review? How can we make reporting our friend and not duplicate effort needlessly?
New electronic resources are in the pipeline but it’s a full time job catching up with the details of the packages, prices and mechanics of them all. Oh, and letting people know what we’ve got. Need to go and make some hard decisions about print stock too, but couldn’t quite face it this afternoon. I need to write a report on scholarly electronic provision soon and have not a clue what to put in it – line manager made helpful suggestions and assured me there were number crunching experts on hand – but still feeling just that wee bit of panic.
Prepared a short presentation for SALCTG (Scottish Academic Libraries Consortium Training Group) – they’re having a Web 2.0 show and tell day on Wednesday in Edinburgh. I’m going to chat a bit about a wiki we used in some first year teaching and assessment.
Marked a few reassessments and sighed. Why resubmit and not include all the necessary components of the assessment? Why bother if you don’t improve your mark or in some cases actually fare worse than first time around?
Evening off tonight? Oh yes; I think so.
